Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days

348 Pages·2014·2.76 MB·English

by  Richard Hunter

HESIODIC VOICES
Richard Hunter selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of
Hesiod’s Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments
werecrucialinfashioningtheideaof‘didacticliterature’.Amajorchapter
considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying
not so much on explicit critical theory as on how Hesiod was read and
usedfromtheearliestperiodofreceptiononwards.Otherchaptersconsider
Hesiodic reception in the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides, in the
classicalproseofPlato,XenophonandIsocrates,intheAesopictradition,
and in the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and Lucian; there is also a
groundbreakingstudyofPlutarch’sextensivecommentaryontheWorksand
DaysandanaccountofancientideasofHesiod’sstyle.Thisisamajorand
innovative contribution to the study of Hesiod’s remarkable poem and to
theGreekliteraryengagementwiththepast.
richard hunter is Regius Professor of Greek in the University of
Cambridge,wherehehastaughtsince1978,andaFellowofTrinityCollege.
HehaspublishedextensivelyinthefieldsofGreekandLatinliterature;his
most recent books include The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge 2006),
Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge 2009), Plutarch: How
to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis) (with Donald Russell, Cambridge
2011)andPlatoandtheTraditionsofAncientLiterature:TheSilentStream
(Cambridge2012).Manyofhisessayshavebeencollectedinthetwo-volume
OnComingAfter:StudiesinPost-ClassicalGreekLiteratureanditsReception
(Berlin/NewYork2008).
cambridge classical studies
Generaleditors
r. l. hunter, r. g. osborne,m. millett,
d. n. sedley,g. c. horrocks,s. p. oakley,
w. m. beard
HESIODIC VOICES
StudiesintheAncientReceptionofHesiod’sWorksandDays
RICHARD HUNTER
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements pagevi
Abbreviations vii
1 ReadingHesiod 1
2 Adidacticpoem? 40
3 Hesiodandthesymposium 123
4 Plutarch’sWorksandDays,andProclus’,and
Hesiod’s 167
5 AesopandHesiod 227
6 Hesiod’sstyle:towardsanancientanalysis 282
Workscited 316
Indexofpassagesdiscussed 331
Generalindex 336
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Parts of this book have been presented as lectures and semi-
nars on too many occasions to list here; I hope that a general
expression of gratitude for the thought-provoking questions
andcriticismsofthoseaudienceswillnotbetakenaschurlish.
I make an exception for the members of a graduate seminar
at Princeton in the fall of 2012; the engaged thoughtfulness
with which they worked through some of this material with
me made them ideal readers and critics. I am very grateful
to the Council of the Humanities and the Department of
Classics at Princeton University, whose generosity made that
seminar possible. I have also, not for the first time, been very
fortunate in having the benefit of two very careful Cambridge
University Press readers, and Michael Sharp has, as always,
beensupportiveoftheenterprisefromthebeginning.
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